Maxwell Maltz Quotes

A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.

Being middle-aged is about realising that you've lived most of your life. You don't have as much time in front of you as you have behind you.

Age, what is it? It's not a figure that has ever meant anything to me.

To think, when one is no longer young, when one is not yet old, that one is no longer young, that one is not yet old, that is perhaps something.

I'm never so sure as I was in my mid-20s.

The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

And I'm not as young as I once was. At my age, I don't have time to be bored.

We all wish to reach a ripe old age, but none of us are prepared to admit that we are already there.

The perceptions of middle age have their own luminosity.

I feel old only when I look at my hands or at myself in the mirror.

I was 24 yesterday. Suddenly you wake up, and you get on the elevator, and there's a mirror there. And you look in the mirror, and you're an old man.

I've been writing about growing old for some time, really from the beginning of my career. It's something I'm apparently hung up about and now that I am old, hopefully I speak about it with some authority.

I've finally become an old guy.

Middle age occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net.

You get older and you see yourself and say, 'God, he's old, who's that?'

As you get older, you come to a place in life where you can't just live in the present.

Turns out I'm getting old.

If you've never been 40, you don't understand how it feels.

There must be times when people look in the mirror and they realize they're 60.

Some feel old at 45.

It makes me think—what am I going to be like when I'm 65?

Christina Stead has a Chinese say, "Our old age is perhaps life's decision about us" or, worse, the decision we have made about ourselves without ever realizing we were making it.

I am not and will never again be a young writer, a young homeowner, a young teacher. I was never a young wife. The only thing I could do now for which my youth would be a truly notable feature would be to die. If I died now, I'd die young. Everything else, I'm doing middle-aged.

Are you thankful for not being young?' 'Yes, sir. If I was young, it would all have to be gone through again, and the end would be a weary way off, don't you see?

I'm 47 now, and I'm at that stage where I'm still young but I'm not young. I'm not old but I'm getting old, and I have stuff at home that reminds me of people and places.